Hi all, When I use my digital camera, I often switch between portrait and landscape orientation - to suit the subject/scene. When I transfer the images I generally use a card reader & just drag the images to the relevant pictures folder.
Now when I browse through the pictures in the finder, Preview shows them all in landscape orientation and opens them in this orientation if I double-click them - I can then, of course rotate them to the correct orientation for viewing. Whilst this is a minor annoyance, I accepted this as inevitable since, as far as I knew, my Canon S45 does not have an orientation sensor and so would not know the orientation I am holding it when I take the picture. HOWEVER... today I was just browsing a folder using the excellent Graphic Converter (which I know is often recommended/referenced in WAMUG posts) when I suddenly realised that all the photo previews were being shown in their correct (with respect to gravity!) orientation as were the photos if I opened them. I always liked graphic converter but I now accord it new respect!....... How does it know which is the correct orientation to display what is, after all, just a bunch of pixels? Intrigued, I checked the the Information pane there is nothing in the EXIF info to indicate orientation but I did notice that the image size was shown as 1704x2272 pixels for the portrait shots and 2272x1704 pixels for the landscape shots. If I import the photos into iPhoto, however, the photos are all shown in landscape mode and shown as 2272x1704 pixels in the info window. So, is Graphic Converter truly Psychic ??!! being a confirmed sceptic, I replaced the card in the camera and previewed the photos on the camera LCD and found (which I had not previously noticed) that the camera does actually display the previews in the correct orientation so presumably it has some form of sensor to detect vertical orientation which it then uses to set the height/width dimensions accordingly?? If so, why can Graphic Converter recognise this seemingly simple piece of info and display the image correctly whilst iPhoto, preview or IE seem oblivious and display all images in landscape format initially (Safari seems unable to simply open a plain JPEG file!). So has anyone else noticed which programs correctly interpret the photo orientation (like graphic converter) and which programs require you to actually rotate all portrait orientation shots (like Preview, iPhoto etc). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]